Technical matters: method, knowledge and infrastructure in twentieth-century life science

Life science in the twentieth century

Science in the twentieth century

implied that he used pulse tracings to "interpret the blood pressure" which is certainly not the case. He thought, as late as 1908, that "the trained finger" was better than sphygmography in estimating blood pressure. Apart from this, and the failure to mention Thomas Young as the inventor of the kymograph (although he seems never to have used one) many years before Ludwig, no comment is needed...

Medical Science in the Twentieth Century †

I deem it a signal honour to have been asked to give this address during the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of your renowned Medical School, particularly as such emphasis is being given in your ceremonies to historical matters for, as you know, I have no claim whatever to be considered a medical historian. My only qualifications to talk on this matter are that I have sp...

Nomothetic science and idiographic history in twentieth-century Americanist anthropology.

For over a century, Americanist anthropologists have argued about whether their discipline is a historical one or a scientific one. Proponents of anthropology as history have claimed that the lineages of human cultures are made up of unique events that cannot be generalized into laws. If no laws can be drawn, then anthropology cannot be a science. Proponents of anthropology as science have clai...

Muslim Intellectuals and the Perennial Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

This paper will examine how Muslim intellectuals, as a result of their attachment to the doctrine of Divine Unity (taw¤hīd), the Quran, Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, and the doctrines and methods of Sufism, were largely responsible for the restating of the perennial philosophy in the West in the twentieth century. The article consists of four sections: an introduction to the term 'philosophia...